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Title: Low Flying
Post by: bob149 on May 01, 2005, 02:59:49 AM

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Title: Low Flying
Post by: bob149 on May 01, 2005, 03:01:45 AM

ooops at least the link works ...sorry

Title: Low Flying
Post by: CMC Airboss on May 02, 2005, 01:18:00 PM

Nothing found at that link even after signing into Yahoo groups.

Title: Low Flying
Post by: VWE on May 02, 2005, 01:46:03 PM

Now go change your password you dolt...

Title: Low Flying
Post by: Chairboy on May 02, 2005, 02:48:58 PM

I've seen the videos, and they're something.  These jets come in over the desert, maybe half a wingspan above the ground, then  pull up and go vertical.

Seems like ground effect would help keep your plane from drifting down and hitting, assuming you had flat ground beneath you.  I don't remember feeling this in AH, how well is ground effect modeled at speed?  Or are there people here who have flown fast at less then a wingspan off the ground that have felt the GE repelling them?

Title: Low Flying
Post by: bunch on May 02, 2005, 03:48:23 PM

I get the impression that ground effect might decrease with speed

Title: Low Flying
Post by: slimm50 on May 02, 2005, 04:01:58 PM

This discussion reminds me that Chuck Yeager had some interesting observations about ground effect while he was in traing at Tonopah (sp?). While flying the P39 Airacobra he routinely left prop marks in the dirt while trying out the ground effect. The "right stuff", indeed.:aok

Title: Low Flying
Post by: midnight Target on May 02, 2005, 04:52:58 PM

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Originally posted by slimm50
This discussion reminds me that Chuck Yeager had some interesting observations about ground effect while he was in traing at Tonopah (sp?). While flying the P39 Airacobra he routinely left prop marks in the dirt while trying out the ground effect. The "right stuff", indeed.:aok

IIRC he also trimmed a friend's tree top with a P-39.

Title: Low Flying
Post by: bunch on May 02, 2005, 09:03:10 PM

I remember that from his book.
I also remember a conversation i had with a USAF general officer who said Yeager is full of as much crap as is possible for a man of his size